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One Lesson from 2020: People Need People

Jan 10, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on One Lesson from 2020: People Need People

DEAR EDITOR, Kaieteur News – Among the many lessons from 2020 is this one: People need people. We need each other in ways, big and small, that many took for granted before the coronavirus...

Trump and Granger have become the world’s greatest laughing stock

Jan 10, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Trump and Granger have become the world’s greatest laughing stock

Dear Editor, Irresponsible enablers let “Trump be Trump” and as such, Wednesday January 6th, 2021, was sadly allowed by pro-Trumpers to manifest as one of America’s darkest days of retribution,...

Sports and the pandemic

Jan 10, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sports and the pandemic

Dear Editor, We are in a new normal, a circumstance that calls for a different kind of leadership and cooperation. While there has always been some indifference in our sports, this is not the time to...

I will respond with the proverbial sledgehammer

Jan 10, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on I will respond with the proverbial sledgehammer

Dear Editor: I make no apology having a preoccupation with race. Unlike Vishnu Bisram whose preoccupation is driven by promoting a narrative his race is superior; mine is the pursuit for racial...

GECOM, under the current secretariat, can never be allowed to run another election

Jan 10, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on GECOM, under the current secretariat, can never be allowed to run another election

Dear Editor One year ago, on Friday, January 10th, 2020, GECOM had its Nomination Day for the 2020 General and Regional Elections. It was on this day, at around 10.00am that the political parties and...

Venezuelan Maduro vows to “reconquer” Essequibo; makes new presidential decree

Jan 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuelan Maduro vows to “reconquer” Essequibo; makes new presidential decree

Kaieteur News – President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, on Thursday issued a presidential decree, reinforcing the country’s claim to Guyana’s Essequibo Region and...

Works begin on correcting electoral loopholes, weaknesses – AG says

Jan 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Works begin on correcting electoral loopholes, weaknesses – AG says

Kaieteur News – With the aim of strengthening Guyana’s electoral system, so that the fraud, corruption and gymnastics that occurred during the March 2 General and Regional Elections, as well...

APNU/AFC who signed Exxon’s deal now willing to support negotiation

Jan 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on APNU/AFC who signed Exxon’s deal now willing to support negotiation

Kaieteur News – Even after being a part of the coalition government that signed and failed to renegotiate the lopsided Stabroek Block Agreement, General Secretary of the Alliance For Change...

Twitter bans President Trump permanently

Jan 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Twitter bans President Trump permanently

(CNN)Twitter has suspended President Trump from its platform, the company said Friday evening. “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around...

Man remanded to jail for sexually molesting his children

Jan 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man remanded to jail for sexually molesting his children

Kaieteur News – The 40-year-old man from Region Three who was arrested for sexually molesting his two children was yesterday remanded to jail. The man appeared at the Leonora Magistrate Court...

Suspected electrical fire guts section of Fogarty’s building

Jan 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Suspected electrical fire guts section of Fogarty’s building

Kaieteur News – It was a major scare yesterday after a fire suspected to be of electrical origin erupted and gutted a kitchen section of the Fogarty’s building located on Water Street,...

Trinidad PM Rowley taken to hospital

Jan 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Trinidad PM Rowley taken to hospital

Kaieteur News – Trinidad and Tobago NEWSDAY – The Prime Minister was taken to hospital on Friday afternoon, but no official statements were given on his condition. Minister in the Office of...

De jukka in de pants

Jan 09, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De jukka in de pants

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Long ago, if de police ketch yuh walking down de road with a cutlass and it nat conceal, dem used to tek it away from yuh. Dat is how people learn dat when dem...

Jagdeo is humming and hawing

Jan 09, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Jagdeo is humming and hawing

Kaieteur News – The PPP/C is pussyfooting on the question of local content. In August, mere weeks after being sworn in to office, the President announced the establishment of an Advisory Panel...

Mitch McConnell, Mike Pence and Claudette Singh

Jan 09, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Mitch McConnell, Mike Pence and Claudette Singh

Kaieteur News – Any Guyanese whether in Iceland, Greenland or Afghanistan that followed the insurrection on Capitol Hill in the US and who knew what happened in Guyana between March and July in...

On Shame and Opportunity

Jan 09, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on On Shame and Opportunity

Kaieteur News – Six months ago, Justin Gest, a political scientist at George Mason University in the United Sates, writing in the respected journal, ‘Foreign Policy’, made the case the...

Guyana holds joint Ministerial meeting with T&T on market access

Jan 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana holds joint Ministerial meeting with T&T on market access

Kaieteur News – A Joint Ministerial Trade and Agricultural Meeting was held virtually between Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) yesterday. The meeting’s purpose was to discuss...

Health Minister counters local lab’s claims of presence of new COVID-19 strain in country

Jan 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Health Minister counters local lab’s claims of presence of new COVID-19 strain in country

Kaieteur News – The Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony has countered claims made by a local laboratory indicating that the new strain of the COVID-19 virus may be present in Guyana and they...

41 new infections added to COVID-19 case toll

Jan 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on 41 new infections added to COVID-19 case toll

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health reported 41 new infections of the COVID-19 virus yesterday. This was represented in their daily dashboard update which shows the total number of confirmed...

OP-ED – Guyana’s oil sector and the ‘Boulevard of Death’

Jan 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on OP-ED – Guyana’s oil sector and the ‘Boulevard of Death’

By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – By May 2020, I was on my fourth reading of Crude Intentions by Alexandra Gillies, one of the world’s most respected experts on oil sector corruption. In that...

Charlotte Street man nabbed with gun, ammo

Jan 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Charlotte Street man nabbed with gun, ammo

Kaieteur News – A 61-year-old man of Charlotte Street, Bourda, Georgetown was on Thursday nabbed with gun and ammunition in the vicinity of the Demerara Harbour Bridge. According to the police...

Lorry driver involved in Old Year’s Day accident granted bail

Jan 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Lorry driver involved in Old Year’s Day accident granted bail

Kaieteur News – The lorry driver that was involved in the Old Year’s Day accident on Coverden Public Road, EBD, was yesterday granted bail after he appeared at the Providence Magistrate Court...

Despite setback, Olivia Bess admitted to local bar

Jan 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Despite setback, Olivia Bess admitted to local bar

Kaieteur News – Despite not being accepted to the Hugh Wooding Law School a few years ago, 26-year-old Olivia Olexis Bess was yesterday admitted to the Bar. Bess’ petition was accepted by...

East Ruimveldt man charged for throwing corrosive substance on former friend

Jan 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on East Ruimveldt man charged for throwing corrosive substance on former friend

Kaieteur News – An East Ruimveldt man was on Wednesday released on bail after he appeared in court for allegedly throwing a corrosive substance on his former friend. The defendant, Orin Thomas,...

Sinclair aims to impress if selected for next month’s Super50 Tournament set for Antigua from Feb 4

Jan 09, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sinclair aims to impress if selected for next month’s Super50 Tournament set for Antigua from Feb 4

By Sean Devers Kaieteur News – After a 52-year-old women traveling from New York became the first covid-19 case in Guyana on March 5, 2020, all sports were shut down later that month due to the...

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GUYSUCO’s problems are political not managerial

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The sugar industry has been for centuries Guyana’s agricultural backbone. Yet, its struggles... more